Case Study: Iran

Question 1

President of Iran from 2005 to 2013

Is sufficiently islamic and tried to increase societal organizing. Was ultimately de-elected because he left the government open to critism

Answer 1

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Question 2

The most important Shia religious holiday, commemorating the death of Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad

Answer 2

Ashura

Question 3

Elected body that chooses the supreme leader

Answer 3

.Assembly of Experts

Question 4

In Shiite Islam, a title in the religious hierarchy achieved by scholars who have demonstrated highly advanced knowledge of Islamic law and religion

Answer 4

Ayatollah

Question 5

“people’s militia” which serves as a public morals police

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Basij

Question 6

Parastatal foundations made in part from assets nationalized after the Iranian Revolution

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Bonyads

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Head of the Judiciary

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Chief Justice

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1905-06 uprising against Qajar dynasty by secular and religious leaders to limit the power of monarchy and resist Western imperialism

Answer 8

Constitutional Revolution

Question 9

Appointed body that mediates between Majlis and the guardian council over legislative disputes

Answer 9

Expediency Council

Question 10

Language of Iran

Answer 10

Farsi

Question 11

Appointed body that vets candidates for office and can overrun legislation

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Guardian Council

Question 12

Descendants of the prophet Muhammad, considered by Shia to be true political and religious leaders of Islam

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Imams

Question 13

The 1980 - 88 conflict between two countries started by Iraq

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Iran - Iraq War

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Name for post revolutionary Iran

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Islamic Republic of Iran

Question 15

The belief that Islam should be the source of political regime

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Islamic Fundamentalism

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Current supreme leader of Iran, as of 1989

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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President of Iran from 1997 to 2005

Answer 17

Mohammad Khatami

Question 18

First supreme leader of Iran, from 1980 to his death in 1989

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Question 19

Central holy book of Islam

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Koran

Question 20

In Shiism, a term for the “hidden imam”, the descendant of Muhammad who will return to earth to usher a new age

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Mahdi

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Legislatures of Iran

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Majlis

Question 22

Prime minister of Iran; deposed in 1953 by Operation Ajax

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Mohammad Mosaddeq

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Main prophet of Islam

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Muhammad

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Political party in Iran following World War II; it opposed the monarchy and favored greater Iranian control over natural resources; outlawed after Operation Ajax

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National Front

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United States - and United Kingdom - baked overthrow of Iranian prime minister Mosaddeq in 1953

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Operation Ajax

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Monarch of Iran from 1941 to 1979 Also called the Shah.

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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Monarch of Iran from 1925 to 1941

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Reza Shah Pahlavi

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Name for Iran before 1935

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Persia

Question 29

In Iran, the head of government

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President

Question 30

Term for political conservatives in Iran who oppose liberalization and political to limit the power of private business

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Principalists

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Description of view within Shiism that rejects theocracy and the direct role of religion in the state

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Quietist

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President of Iran from 1989 to 1997

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Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

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Paramilitary force charged with defending the regime from domestic and internal enemies

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Revolutionary Guard

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Current President of Iran

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Hassan Rouhani

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Secret police of pre revolutionary Iran

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SAVAK

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Reformist alliance that emerged in Iran to contest the 2000 Majlis elections

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Second Khordad Front

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System of Islamic law

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Sharia

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Minority sect of Islam that differs from Sunnism over the rightful heir and proper descendants of the prophet Muhammad

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Shiism

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Chief spiritual and political leader of Iran

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Supreme Leader

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Rule by religion or religious leaders

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Theocracy

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Literally, "community"; meant to refer to the nation or Islamic communities everywhere

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Ummah

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Rule by Islamic jurists; also, Islamic Republic's political system, which places power in the hands of clerics

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Velayat -e faqih

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Reforms enacted by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , beginning in 1963, to rapidly modernize the westernize Iran

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White Revolution